Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
CHAPTER 3 Titus 3:1-3 1. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, 1. Admone illos principibus et potestatibus subditos esse dicto oboedire ad omne opus bonum paratos esse 2. To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. 2.
Commenting on Titus 3:1-15
Here is the fourth thing in the matter of the epistle. The apostle had directed Titus in reference to the particular and special duties of several sorts of persons; now he bids him exhort to what concerned them more in common, namely, to quietness and submission to rulers, and readiness to do good, and to equitable and gentle behaviour towards all men - things comely...
Commenting on Titus 3:1-8
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers,.... Not angels, good or bad, which are sometimes so called, but men in high places; the higher powers ordained of God, as the apostle elsewhere calls them; and which the Apostle Peter distinguishes into the king as supreme, and into governors under him: the Roman emperor and senate, the consuls, and proconsuls, deputies and...